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experience personnel is required. When the client want pieces in big quantities, the work becomes repetitive and wastes valuable time that could be spend in the elaboration of pieces for another client.
In search of new services to the clients and to improve the quality diminishing the characteristic error in pieces manufactured in big quantities, or with designs to difficult to obtain with conventional machines; it was necessary to make a study of the feasibility to automate a lathe and a milling machine. This would help the company to offer to the market the elaboration of pieces in big quantities and the production of molds.
The Automation Department of AKA Precisión who is in charge of carrying out projects of automation for the clients, was in charge of the making of this project.
For the feasibility of automating a lathe, the option that was studied was using a specialized controller the ANILAM 4200T, this system offers many operative advantages, however the mechanical modification of the Hardinge lathe, as the placement of the ballscrews, turns out to be a very delicate and expensive work.
To automate the milling machine is less expensive than the lathe. The option with controller ACU-RITE MILLPWR is of easy installation, so much in the mechanical parts as of electronic components. And the time spend for the realization of pieces of high level of complexity is very short.
The appropriate selection of components in the elect